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STATEMENT.
Little Raven, Chief of the Arapahoes, being questioned as to his knowledge of the location of the Reservation allotted to his people and the Cheyennes, by the Medicine Lodge Treaty in 1867, declared, in our presence, that at the time he signed the Treaty, he fully supposed the land on the Upper Arkansas, between Bent's Fort and the Rocky Mountains, was the Reservation, being the same as previously set apart to them in the treaty of 1865; and he believes that the Cheyennes were also of that opinion. Nor had he any doubt about it, until he met General Sheridan at Medicine Bluff Headquarters, 15th of February, 1869, and until to-day he did not know precisely where the new Reservation was located.
Little Raven says he supposes that this misunderstanding arose from the hasty way in which the treaty was made and read to them, and by mistaken interpretation.
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